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Railway Age, Jan. 26, 1900

The rapid transit problem on Manhattan Island will be pretty effectually solved by the completion of the underground railway, which is to carry passengers from the city hall to Harlem in fifteen minutes. The contract, which has just been awarded on a bid of $35,000,000, covers nearly 21 miles of tunnel and about 58 miles of tracks, of which 46 1/2 miles will be underground and about 11 1/2 miles elevated. There will be 43 local stations, five express stations and 10 station elevators, and 65,000 net tons of steel will be used in structures. The construction of this prodigious work in the short space of three years, as promised, will be a remarkable achievement.

Railway Age, May 23, 1902

The Interborough Rapid Transit Company incorporated in Albany, N.Y., on May 6, with a capital of $25,000,000. The company are to operate the subway in New York City, and two routes are specified, one 14 and the other 7 mites in length. The terminals of the longer route are to be near the intersection of Broadway with Park Row, Manhattan, and a point near the present Kings Bridge Station of the New York & Putnam Railroad, Bronx Borough. Terminals for the other route are to be on the boulevard, near its intersection with One Hundred and Third Street, and near the intersection of Boston Road with Bronx Park, Bronx Borough.

Railway Age, Feb. 19, 1904

The Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York has just placed in service on its Second Avenue Line an experimental all-steel coach of a type which it is proposed to use subsequently to a large extent in the subway, with such changes as tests of the present car may indicate to be desirable. The matter is of added interest, as the car in discussion is the one which was built at Altoona by the Pennsylvania last summer and fall, and which was designed primarily for use in the Pennsylvania-Manhattan tunnel. In the few days trial, the car has performed satisfactorily and 200 of similar construction have been ordered from the American Car & Foundry Company.

Railway Age, Sept. 9, 1904

Without any blowing of trumpets, the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company on Thursday, September 1, transferred the substantially completed underground railroad to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company.

Railroad Gazette, Sept. 16, 1904

The quarter of a million passengers transported to the business district by the elevated and surface cars during the morning rush have been thus accounted for: 75,000 come down from above Twenty-third Street by the four elevated lines and 67,000 by the surface electric roads; 31,000 are brought from Long Island and Staten Island by the ferries, and 33,000 cross on Brooklyn Bridge cars to resume their journey in Manhattan Borough; New Jersey contributes 32,000, and 12,000 reach the Broadway and avenue cars by cross-town traction. Consider that 50 per cent of these passengers have to stand in the cars, enduring the greatest discomfort. To suppose that when the subway is running seats will be found for all who desire to ride is to be blindly optimistic. As for the surface cars, they will be as congested as ever, since they cannot handle long-haul traffic now and do not want it.

Though it be a foregone conclusion that the Rapid Transit Railroad of Manhattan Island and Bronx Borough, in view of constantly increasing traffic, will fail to solve for any considerable time the vexed problem, let us make no mistake about the greatness and grandeur of the undertaking, the difficulties to be overcome in building it, and the incalculable service it will render the community. In the course of the work, not less than 1,700,288 cubic yards of earth would have to be excavated, 773,093 to be filled back, 921,128 of rock to be excavated, and 368,600 to be tunneled. The steel to be used in construction was reckoned at 65,044 tons, the cast iron at 7,901, concrete 489,122 cu. yds., brick 18,519 cu. yds., and the water-proofing, 775,795.

Railway Age, Oct. 7, 1904

Monday afternoon, October 3, a train of six cars, electrically operated, made the fastest run to date in the New York subway, operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. Over 100 representatives of the technical and daily press were the guests of Vice-President E.P. Bryan and General Manager Frank Hedley. The train consisted of two steel coaches. The 7 miles from the Brooklyn Bridge station to Ninety-sixth Street were covered in 10 minutes 45 seconds official time. Beyond the latter station, the train was slowed, by the time from City Hall to One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street was but 18 minutes, the distance being almost 9 miles. A speed of 45 miles per hour was reached on some stretches and the Grand Central Station was passed in 5 1/2 minutes from Brooklyn Bridge.

Railroad Gazette, Nov. 4, 1904

The subway in New York City is now in actual operation and those who have watched its progress toward completion with many hopes and possibly with some misgivings can form some definite conclusions about its capacity, its sanitary conditions, and the success of the project in providing real rapid transit. Beginning Thursday evening, October 27, at seven o'clock, five hours after it had been formally opened, the subway from city hall to Broadway and 145th Street was thrown open for general use. The curious public swarmed into the station and crowded the trains to the utmost until late at night and the new road had a severe test. In the first five hours up to midnight, 111,881 tickets had been sold. On Friday, 24 hours, 319,000 tickets were sold; on Saturday, about 350,000, and on Sunday, 309,875. On Monday, the number of passengers carried dropped to about 240,000, and that is probably a fair estimate of the number of people who can be expected to use the new line regularly for the present.

Railway Age, Nov. 4, 1904

The opening of the New York subway a week ago has introduced an extremely interesting factor into the question of city transportation. It was substantially an untried plan in the United States, and even abroad scarcely is matched, for which reason it arouses an interest independent of its cost or engineering features, both of which are great, but which are lost sight of in the manifestations of public approval which already have followed the running of trains. The actual operation of subway trains at this moment makes the passenger situation a question of vivid interest, not only to New York City, but to every other large city in the world.

Railway Age Gazette, Jan. 17, 2913

The New York State Public Service Commission, First District, announces that both of the transportation companies which are to operate the dual system of rapid transit in New York City and contribute to the cost of construction of the new lines, have filed applications for the approval of bond issues needed to finance the project. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company proposes to issue bonds to the amount of $170,000,000.... The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, through the New York Municipal Railway Corporation, which was formed to enter into the proposed contract with the city, desires to issue $100,000,000....

Railway Age Gazette, March 21, 1913

After exasperating delays in the courts and elsewhere extending over more than two years, the New York State Public Service Commission First District, on Wednesday of this week signed contracts with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for the construction and operation of new subways, designed to complete the system of underground rapid transit in the boroughs of Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. The city government has appropriated $88,200,000 for this work, the estimated amount which will be necessary to pay for the share of the improvement which is to be paid for by the city.

1915: The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company opened a new subway between Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Railway Age, Nov. 1, 1924

The track mileage of the subways of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company is now 240, the car mileage for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, was 124,025,653, and 714,933,187 passengers were carried during that year.

1932: The Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad began operating a third subway.

Railway Age, April 20, 1940